Abstract
The globally observed recession of mobile services market has pushed mobile network operators into looking for opportunities to provide value-added services on top of their high cost infrastructures. Latest advances in self and network-assisted positioning technologies, enable the provision of services that make use of the actual mobile user location. This paper presents the key points and considerations of a detailed approach for designing, developing and evaluating a very low-cost infrastructure, capable of providing tourism content related location-based services. The main effort is taken into allowing the potential integration of various market and technology stakeholders into such services, thus supporting open business models, while at the same time safeguarding end-user privacy.
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